creating a migration that a column to an existing table in laravel code example

Example 1: laravel migration add column to existing table

php artisan make:migration add_paid_to_users_table --table=users
  
public function up()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->integer('paid');
    });
}

public function down()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->dropColumn('paid');
    });
}

php artisan migrate

Example 2: how create migration in laravel

//to create migration file in PHP use the artisan command "make"
php artisan make:migration create_users_table
// migration file must follow the naming convention "operation_tableName_table"
//Migration file to add column naming convention would be "add_tablename_table"